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Lisa D. Brush, PhD
University of Wisconsin, 1993
Title: Associate Professor
Campus Address: 2425 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7595
E-mail: lbrush@pitt.edu
Web Page: www.pitt.edu/~lbrush/lbrush.html
Fields
Sex and gender, political sociology, violence against women, social policy, feminist theories, class analysis
Teaching
Graduate: Research Design, Classical Social Theory, Women in Society, Gender and Policy in Cross-National Perspective
Undergraduate: Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Gender, Working Women, Classical Social Theory, Pittsburgh Area Studies, Social Change in the US
Selected Publications:
2006
Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate: Writing the Wrongs of Welfare." (with Lorraine Higgins) College Composition and Communication. vol. 57, no. 4: 694-729.
"Safety and Self-Sufficiency: Rhetoric and Reality in the Lives of Welfare Recipients." pp. 183-192 in Keith Kilty and Elizabeth Segal (eds), The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the Twenty-First Century (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006).
2004
"Battering and the poverty trap." Journal of Poverty. Vol. 8, no. 3:23-43.
"The welfare state." In Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor for ABC-Clio Press.
2003
Gender and Governance: States and Social Policies Through a Gender Lens. A book in the Gender Lens Series edited by Joey Sprague, Judith Howard, and Barbara Risman for AltaMira Press (a division of Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD).
"Gender and the uses of history." Journal of Urban History 29:2(January):216-225.
"'That's why I'm on Prozac': Battered women, traumatic stress, and education in the context of welfare reform." Pp. 215-239 in Vivyan Adair and Sandra Dahlberg (eds.), Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press).
"Impacts of welfare reform." Race, Gender and Class. Vol. 10, no. 3:137-192.
"The effects of work on hitting and hurting." Violence Against Women.Vol. 9, no. 10 (October): 1213-1230.(with Jody Raphael and Richard Tolman)
"Guest Editors. Introduction." Violence Against Women. Vol. 9, no. 10 (October): 1167-1170.
"Battered husband syndrome." In Men and Masculinities: A Social,Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson for ABC-Clio Press.
2002
"Work-related abuse: A replication, new items, and persistent questions." Violence and Victims. Vol. 17, no. 6 (December): 743-757.
"Changing the Subject: Gender and welfare regime studies." Social Politics. Vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer): 161-186.
Honors/Awards:
New Person Award for activist research from the Thomas Merton Center 2006.
Steven Manners Faculty Development Grant for 2003-2004 ($6,000) for "Battering, Work and Welfare." (withLorraine Higgins, English) Received small grant from Women's Studies Faculty Research Fund for 2001-2002 ($1,050). "Getting by, looking ahead: A narrative inquiry into battering and waged work."
Awarded research grant from National Institute of Justice ($234,000). September 2000 to August 2002. "Qualitative research on battering and welfare-to-work transition." Lorraine Higgins is collaborator on Community Literacy Project segment. No-cost extension through August 2003.
Received small grant from University Research Council Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh ($13,891). July 2000 to June 2002. "Analysis of administrative data on battering, welfare, and work."
Received small grant from University Research Council Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh ($12,500). Supported Graduate Student Researcher from September 1998 through April 1999.
Received research expenses grant from FAS, University of Pittsburgh ($1,000). Summer 1998.
Received grant to cover respondent compensation costs from University Center for Social and Urban Research ($1,200). Summer 1998.
Awarded Junior Faculty Research Leave from Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Spring Semester 1998.
1997 Summer research stipend from FAS, University of Pittsburgh ($3,500).
1996 Travel and expense fellowship, Pittsburgh-Augsburg Exchange Program, University Center for International Studies. Summer.
1992 Sally Hacker Dissertation Paper Award, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association.
1991-1992 Dissertation Fellow, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1986-1989 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.
1985-1986 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Graduate Fellow.
Project(s):
1998-2003 Family Violence and Self-Sufficiency Project. Principal Investigator for research assessing family violence as an obstacle to job training and welfare-to-work transition for women in Allegheny County.
Community Literacy Project
Retrospective Interview Project
Prospective Interview Project
Administrative Data Project